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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Taltos do when they go "wild"?
(a) They mate indiscriminately.
(b) They live away from all human and Taltos contact.
(c) They kill themselves.
(d) They go berserk and kill whoever they meet.

2. Where does Mary Jane suggest they go?
(a) To find Rowan.
(b) To find Ash.
(c) Fontevrault.
(d) Back to the Mayfair estate.

3. What is the clacking noise the doctor hears as he is preparing to leave?
(a) A duck that is sitting on the porch.
(b) A young woman typing on a computer.
(c) An automatic sewing machine.
(d) A young woman using an electric knitting machine.

4. What makes a coupling Taltos pair end the coupling?
(a) They fall asleep for days.
(b) They hear a voice in their head.
(c) Nothing in particular.
(d) The baby is ready to be born.

5. What does the doctor insist upon doing?
(a) Seeing Mary Jane's identification.
(b) Calling an ambulance.
(c) Being paid in cash.
(d) Examining Mona.

6. What happened to the Taltos island?
(a) It is still there.
(b) It became barren.
(c) It eventually sank into the sea.
(d) It exploded.

7. How do Rowan and Michael get back to the United States?
(a) In Yuris' lear jet.
(b) In Ash's plane.
(c) They teleport themselves.
(d) They do not return to the States yet.

8. What is one thing Ash worried about for his group of Taltos?
(a) Nothing.
(b) The humans would mate with them.
(c) The humans would kill them.
(d) Quarrels among them.

9. What is in the envelope Mary Jane gives the doctor?
(a) Instructions and a map to find his way out of the swamp.
(b) Twenty dollar bills.
(c) A copy of the birth certificate for him to file.
(d) Fifty dollar bills.

10. What intrigued the Taltos about the human children?
(a) Nothing.
(b) They were born in such a helpless state.
(c) They could not talk mind to mind.
(d) They were so much smaller than their parents.

11. Where do Ash and the other Taltos with him eventually settle?
(a) North America.
(b) Greece.
(c) Britian.
(d) France.

12. What vow does Ash find appealing about which the Catholic priest tells Ash?
(a) None.
(b) Obedience.
(c) Chastity.
(d) Poverty.

13. What occasionally created problems for the Taltos when they were in their "paradise"?
(a) Old age.
(b) Fighting among themselves.
(c) Pestilence.
(d) Illness.

14. How did the Taltos view monogamy?
(a) It was unheard of among them.
(b) It was the only way the Taltos legitimized their coupling.
(c) Ash does not mention the concept of monogamy.
(d) Some chose it and some did not.

15. What does Marklin realize when he and Tommy are in a large room with other members?
(a) Nothing in particular.
(b) Marklin is being ignored.
(c) Tommy has disappeared.
(d) Marklin and Tommy are the only novices.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does Ash compare the birth of a Taltos child?

2. What happens once when humans raided Taltos' village?

3. What did Lasher reveal to Michael?

4. What path does Ash believe is best for the Taltos after hearing the ideas of Christianity?

5. What happens when Tommy and Marklin are tossed through a door?

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